A magneto-optical recording medium is provided with at least: a recording
layer, made of a perpendicular magnetization film, in which magnetized
information is recorded in the form of a perpendicular direction of
magnetization; a magnetic flux generating layer, made of a perpendicular
magnetization film, which is exchange-coupled with the recording layer;
and a read-out layer, having a perpendicular magnetization at a
predetermined temperature or higher temperatures than the predetermined
temperature, which copies the magnetized information of the recording
layer by magneto-static coupling with the magnetic flux generating layer
and the recording layer, wherein the magnetic flux generating layer is a
magnetic film having a lower Curie temperature than that of the recording
layer and having a larger total magnetization than that of the recording
layer at a temperature at which the read-out layer has a perpendicular
magnetization.
